Comments on: The Article 50 decision: can we please get a grip?http://markxdavies.com/?p=3811
Mark DaviesTue, 02 Jul 2019 17:41:12 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.13By: mark.davies@camberton.comhttp://markxdavies.com/?p=3811&cpage=1#comment-3785
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:31:37 +0000http://www.markxdavies.com/?p=3811#comment-3785As an addendum to this, Daniel Hannan talks in a piece in the Telegraph today (link below) about the Constitutional argument being ‘preposterous’ on the grounds that ‘Does anyone imagine that the corporations which funded the court case were interested purely in the constitutional niceties?’.

No, Dan, of course no-one does, but so what? It doesn’t matter a row of beans *why* they brought it, because the judges don’t decide on the basis of *why* a case was brought. They decide on the merits of the case in law.

The law requires parliament to vote. So that puts ‘the corporations’ on the side of the law for getting a vote, and bully for them. Sadly, from a Remainer’s perspective, it doesn’t change the politics one jot: the Leavers are on the winning side of that. Perhaps both sides – perhaps the world as a whole – would benefit from stopping this new tendency to bleat about decisions that go against them, and play the cards they get dealt.

So don’t get your knickers in a twist, Dan: just get the vote done. Or, as Alf Ramsey said to the boys in 1966, “you’ve won this thing once, so win it again.”